Features

Piwigo offers a wide set of features for any photo gallery. Many of the available features are listed below. New features are added to Piwigo on an ongoing basis, because of coding team ideas and discussions with the user community.

Upload your photos

You can add photos with the web form, any FTP client ora desktop application like digiKam, Shotwell, Lightroom ormobile applications.

Batch Manager

Filter photos from your collection, make a selection and apply actions in batch: change the author, add some tags, associate to a new album, set geolocation...

Organize with Album

Distribute your photos among your own albums. The album tree has unlimited depth. Each photo can belong to several albums.

Browse by Dates

Digital cameras store the date in the photo and Piwigo uses this date to display your photo collection in a calendar and let you browse from day to day.

Privacy on your Photos

Make your photos private and decide who can see each of them. You can set permissions on albums and photos, for groups or individual users.

Geolocate your photos on a map

Piwigo can read GPS latitude and longitude from embedded metadata. Then, with plugin for Google Maps or OpenStreetMap, Piwigo can display your photos on an interactive map.

Themes & Plugins

Change appearance with themes. Add features with plugins. Extensions require just a few clicks to get installed.
350 extensions available, and growing!

Full screen slideshow

With the Fotorama plugin, or specific themes such as Bootstrap Darkroom, you can experience the full screen slideshow.

Easy installation and updates

We have designed Piwigo to be super easy to install, with the minimum requirements. So are updates with a single button to click!

A great place for your visitors

Your visitors can post comments, give ratings, mark photos as favorite, perform searches and get notified of news by email.

Import automatic your metadata

For example an IPTC description can be imported into photo properties, displayed next to the photo... and searchable!

Users management

Administrators can create users, groups, manage permissions and send notifications. Several administrators can work at the same time in Piwigo. Perfect for your team!

API

Piwigo web API makes it easy for developers to perform actions from other applications: display thumbnails in a WordPress blog post, publish photo from Lightroom, synchronize a local folder with a Perl script... As simple as HTTP requests and JSON responses.